Free Software audit update

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Aug 21 11:40:08 UTC 2006


Michael Tiemann wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 05:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
>>> Ok my wording might not have been entirely appropriate but it doesnt 
>>> meet the packaging guidelines for either Free software 
>>> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motif.html) or open source software 
>>> (http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html) and should be removed from 
>>> the distribution.
>> Yes, OpenMotif is not a copyright nor a legal issue. It's a religious
>> one. It's licence doesn't meet the some people's "confession/belief"
> 
> Ralf,
> 
> I disagree.  Fedora was constituted as a free software distribution.

Correction: (AFAICT) As it is *right now* Fedora is an OpenSource 
distribution, not 100% free (yet).  Moving from OSS -> free is another 
discussion.

-- Rex




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